Beginnings and Objectives
The Intelligent Car Initiative was founded by Commission Communication of 15 February 2006, and presented to the public in Brussels/Belgium a week later, on 23 February 2006. Its objective is to improve road safety in the European Union, and in particular to cut back the number of annually more than 40.000 road fatalities and 1.2m accidents on the Union's roads, to decrease the number of traffic jams, and to reduce fuel consumption and road transport's CO² emissions.
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